Fan Yang, Habermas, Foucault and the Political-Legal Discussions in China. A Discourse on Law and Democracy, Springer 2022 About this book This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context. After arguing that Habermas’s Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy is too normative and idealistic, it presents Foucault’s Discourse Theory …
Luca Sciortino, History of Rationalities. Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 About this book Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of ‘ways of thinking’. This book presents, compares, and contrasts these different notions. It focuses primarily on Ian Hacking’s idea of ‘style of reasoning’ …
Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, 3rd Edition, Polity, 2023 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and …
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller, Lving Reference Work, Palgrave, 2020 About this book Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies. Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism. Highlights the ways in …
Yin-An Chen, Toward a Micro-Political Theology. A Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Liberation Theologies Foreword by Jeremy Carrette, Pickwick Publications, 2022 Has liberation theology reached a dead end? Has the time come to propose another strategy of political resistance, one that considers and takes account of the complexity of power relationships in daily life? How …
Ian Hacking, Anthropologie philosophique et raison scientifique, Textes réunis par Matteo Vagelli. Traduction de Aude Bandini, Vincent Guillin ,Marc Kirsch, Louis Quéré, Matteo Vagelli, Vrin, 2023. Présentation Des calculs de probabilité aux troubles de la personnalité, des électrons à la maltraitance des enfants, de la logique de l’induction aux fous voyageurs, l’éventail des objets abordés …
María Laura Martínez Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking, Springer, 2021 About this book This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking’s work. It presents Hacking’s oeuvre as a network made up of four interconnected key nodes: styles of scientific thinking & doing, …
Martina Tazzioli, Border abolitionism. Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue, Manchester University Press, 2023. Forthcoming July Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical …
Handbook on Governmentality. Research Handbooks in Political Thought series Edited by William Walters and Martina Tazzioli. Edward Elgar Publishing 2023 The Handbook on Governmentality discusses the development of an interdisciplinary field of research, focusing on Michel Foucault’s post-foundationalist concept of governmentality and the ways it has been used to write genealogies of modern states, the …
Michel Foucault : qu’est-ce que la philosophie?, Actualité: l’univers du livre, 18/04/2023 The first 26 pages of the uncorrected proofs to the book are attached to this article. Le Discours philosophique propose ainsi une nouvelle manière de faire l’histoire de la philosophie, qui la décentre du commentaire des grands philosophes. […] Les éditions du Seuil …
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